encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
specification.)
-changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
- * cleanups on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for gcc>=3 (thanks
- to Christophe Rhodes and Nathan Froyd)
- * DESCRIBE on a symbol now says something about DEFTYPE-style
- expansions associated with the symbol (thanks to Eric Marsden's
- patch for CMU CL).
+changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
+ * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
+ this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
+ (thanks to Dan Barlow)
+ * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
+ (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
+ * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
+ gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
+ * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
+ Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
+ * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
+ INFO database to support symbol macros.
+ * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
+ (thanks to coreythomas)
planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
* When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe